Show I. I J Soldiers Flank Church of Nativity On Ot Eve of Prince of Peace Pageants JERUSALEM Dec 23 UP UP- UP Steel motor trucks of ot fighting men stood today row by row Inthe in inthe inthe the courtyard of the Church of the Nativity Flanking the church where to tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow to- to morrow the joyous y yet t subdued pageants celebrating the birth of Christ will begin were British soldiers soldiers quartered quartered In Franciscan and Greek monasteries j. j 1 This year there were not many pilgrims to the homeland of the Savior There were instead the thousands of soldiers on guard against a rekindling of violence and bloodshed which has marked the Arabs' Arabs long strike against Jewish settlement in the land which Christians J Jews eWI and MoslemS Moslems Moslems Mos Mos- lems alike revere The six-month six strike officially official official- I ly is over but sporadic misdeeds keep alive Palestine's dread Arabs indignant at the Jewish effort to establish a national home homeS here and bitter at the manner in which Britain Is carrying out the League of Nations mandate for Palestine are ready to resume their struggle to make the Holyland Holyland Holyland Holy- Holy land an independent Arab Arab I tate state A L j |